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38 Cards in this Set
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Who was the first black female musician to earn a masters in music?
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Nora Douglas Holt
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What Black opera star was refused the right to sing in the consitution hall
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Marian Anderson
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First black female tennis player to win major tournaments in the 1950s
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Althea Gibson
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The first African american woman to win 3 gold medals
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Wilma Rudoplh
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Basketball player was a center that helped US Olympic team win a Gold Medal
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Oscar Robertson
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Coached Arkansas to the 1994 NCAA BASketball championship
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Nolan Richardson
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The first and only african american race car driver to win NASCAR winston cup
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Wendell Oliver
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The famous case of brown vs board of education declaring racial segregation unconstitutional was the finale of a legal strategy commonly attributed to the heroic backround work of one law school proffesor
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Charles Hamilton Houston
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What US SUpreme cCourt Decision declared school segregation unconstitutional
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Brown VS baord of education
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Who founded the first major African American National union, the brother hood of sleeping car porters
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A. Philip Randolph
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What year did congress end slavery?
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1865
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What is the name of the man who was President of the San Antonio Branch of the NAACP, the Texas State NAACP, and also the National Medical ASsociation
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Dr. CA Whittier
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Who was the first black admitted to the Bar in San Antonio in 1920
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Mr, Oliver Johnson
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Which School is SAISD is named for a black woman principle
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Bella Cameron
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The African American woman who helped girl scouts and has a San Antonio center named after her
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Katie McKinney Jones
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What is the Name of the fiorst black woman to serve as President of the SA Fiesta Committee
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Gloria WIlson Ray
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What Texas State office building is located on CHerry sctreet and is named for a blackman
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Garlington Jerome Sutton
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Promoted her novel Mama by contacting colleagues and universities, Wrote waiting to Exhale that became a major motion picture
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Terry McMillan
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What medal did Poet Langston Hughes receive in 1960
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Spingarn Medal
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Who was the first Black to be recognized as a portrait painter
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Joshua Johnson
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Who organized the 1941 exhibition "Afro American art on both continents"
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Alaine Lock
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Who painted grand canyon of the yellowstone from the hayden point in 1891
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Grafton TYler Brown
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Give the name of the person in the San Antonio who painted the arch over the New Braunsfel Street Bridge
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George Clark Sr
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What san antonio couples artwork is on display in the SA art museum and the Smithsonian
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Dr. Harmon Kelly and his wife Harriet Kelly
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Name the painter who was paralyzed during World War I but continued to paint with one hand
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Horrace Pippin
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Name the play for which Lorraine Handsberry the first black woman to write a braodway play became famous for
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Raisin in the sun
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Who was the recipient of the Harmon Bronze Award in fine arts in 1929 and sculpted pearl and chester
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Sargent Johnson
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In 1954 she was the first black actress to recieve an acedemy award nomination for best actress for the film carmen jones
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Dorothy Dandridge
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He played the character fiddler in the television mini series ROots in 1977. He won academy award for best supoporting actor in An Officer and a Gentleman
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Louis Gossett Jr.
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In 1972 Cicely Tyson was nom,inated for best actress for her performance in what movie
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Sounder
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She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues
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Diane Ross
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Name the first African American to receive an Oscar
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Hattie McDaniel
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What movie did sydney poitier win an Oscar for best Actor to become the first african american actor to achieve this
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Lilies of the Field
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In this tribute to 1960s R&B groups Robert townshend acted in and directed this movie`
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The Five Heartbeats
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Whoe Produced and directed the television series A Different WOrld
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Debbie Allen
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Whoe founded TV one
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Catherine L Hughes
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This noted songstress and movie star invludes in her film credits Broadway Rhythm, Cabin in the Sky, Till Clouds roll by and the Wiz
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Lena Hrone
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George walker was the first black to win a pulitzer prize he was a what
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compser and pianist
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